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Sunday, February 7, 2010 75 DAILY NEWSNYDailyNews.com TOP0 1 2 3 4 5 THE FIELD REGGIE WAYNE PIERRE THOMAS MARQUES COLSTON DALLAS CLARK 4-1 8-1 8-1 8-1 8-1 Odds to score last touchdown in Super Bowl XLIV Courtesy of betus.com BY WAYNE COFFEY, MICHAEL O'KEEFFE MARK LELINWALLA ygf. Say Hey, Mantle Ford make hay ny Yankee fan worth his Dooley Womack baseball card knows that the 1962 World Series against the Giants was full of high dra ter field, clapping. Puzzled, he turned to catcher Elston Howard. "Elston, what is wrong with that fool out there?" Mays said. ma, but according to Willie Mays, we don't know the half of it.

In a wide-ranging interview with Bob Costas that will air Hi Replied Howard, "I can't tell you now, but I'll tell you later." Nearly a half-century later, Mays misremembers the sequence of the day he thought the strikeout was his first at-bat, not his last but not the upshot Tuesday night on the MLB Network's "Studio 42" program, Mays, whose of it: that a future Hall of Famer biography by James S. Hirsch will also be released today, tells a story about the noc turnal doings of Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, noted party boys. It seems that the night before Game 1 in San Francisco, Mantle and Ford ran up a tab of $5,000 on Giants owner mm "They've earned a pass," adds Nile, who got to know Townsend and Daltrey when he was the opening act during their 1980 tour. "The raw edge of their music there's nothing like it. When I listen to 'Who's it's like reading Ginsberg or Corso or any of the other great beat poets.

It makes me fiercely jubilant." Nile is one of the 20 artists who will be performing music of The Who on March 2 at Carnegie Hall; proceeds from the show will be distributed to six non-profit music education organizations. Other musicians scheduled include Mose Allison, Bob Mould and Frank Black. "It's going to be a great night," Nile says. "We'll celebrate The Who and raise money for a good cause. How cool is that?" Crack open a Six Pack The Mets have introduced their revamped Six Pack Ticket plans for the 2010 season at Citi Field and they already know Dwight Gooden's favorite selection the Hall-of-Fame pack.

When the Mets host the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday, Aug. 1 at 1:10 p.m., Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Frank Cashen and Davey Johnson will all officially be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame. Other six-packs have games for Opening Day against the Marlins on April 5, Pyrotechnics Night on July 5 vs. the Reds and a Champion Pack which has the May 21 Subway Series contest against the Yankees. Six Packs start at $106 per set.

threw a World Series strikeout pitch worth five grand. Who are you kidding? Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, Up with People, Bruce Springsteen's crotch in our face is there anything weirder than the Super Bowl halftime show? Why do musicians accept a gig that gives them just 12 minutes to race through their greatest hits while most of the audience is using the toilet? Even more important, why would The Who one of the greatest rock bands in history want to play at America's most bloated and overhyped annual event? Did The Who sell out? Willie Nile, the great New York singer-songwriter, says no way. "I may not watch the game but I will definitely watch Pete (Townsend) and Roger (Daltrey) play," Nile says, referring to the band's surviving original members. "To see Pete do a few windmills yet again will make my heart jump. Horace Stoneham's account at the tony Olympic Country Club.

When Stoneham found out, he told Ford he'd forgive the debt if Ford could strike out Mays in Game 1 (why an owner would give an opposing pitcher an incentive to strike out his All-Star center fielder is an issue for another Score item). Mays got three hits in his first three at-bats against Ford. "I used to kill Whitey all the time," Mays says. In his fourth at-bat, Mays got behind. Ford fired a nasty spitter and struck him out.

Mays looked out and saw Mantle out in cen- Jim O'Brien boots himself into Super history yards with it. But the rookie kicker was shaking when it came time for the extra point. "I was really nervous on that like when you line up a three-foot putt. You're almost better off if you have a 30-footer," he says. "I learned from that on the winning kick," he adds.

"All I remember is seeing the ball. I didn't see the holder (Earl Morrall) put it down and I didn't hear anything. Everything was a wide receiver. The game hardly had the fireworks expected in today's Super Bowl between the Colts and Saints. It was a brutal defensive battle waged on the broiling Astroturf.

There were 11 turnovers, seven by the Colts. "It's hard to go up and catch a ball when someone's hitting you in the kidneys," he explains. Late in a tie game, a holding penalty backed the Cowboys up and Craig Morton's pass for Dan Reeves was deflected and inter BY HANKGOLA DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER IM O'BRIEN looked up just in time to see his kick go through the goal posts. Seconds later, he was jumping for joy before being mobbed by his teammates. Jim O'Brien had just won Super Bowl for the Baltimore Colts.

But O'Brien wasn't lucky enough to see the blow that probably ended his career just cepted by Mike Curtis, who returned just silent. There was no noise or anything. I kicked it and that was it." The kick made O'Brien as it 13 yards to the Dallas 28 with 59 seconds left. On third and seven, O'Brien trotted onto the field for a 32-yard try the goal posts were on the goal line in those days. four years later.

"I was in a bar and talking to this guy's ex-wife. She was a friend of mine from college. We were just talking," O'Brien recalls. "(The ex-husband) came up behind me and hit me in the face with a beer bottle. I had my glasses on.

It cut my cornea" HI much of a hero in Baltimore as Brooks Robinson. The win soothed the hurt from the loss "I remember everything but not to Joe Namath and the Jets two years earlier. O'Brien played two more sea much," he says. "I remember concen sons with the Colts and another with the Lions. His numbers were less than mediocre, a 55.6 success rate.

He'll be rooting for the Colts today even though he, like many old Colts, felt abandoned when the team left Balti O'Brien, who had to have surgery on his eye, was never same kicker again. "I tried a couple of times, had a couple of tryouts and didn't make it," says O'Brien. "But I can't blame that on the incident specifically. It was just one of those things, wrong place wrong time." Fortunately, O'Brien's short career had its one shining moment in Miami against the Cowboys. The right place and the right time was the Orange Bowl on Jan.

17, 1971. O'Brien was a rookie straightaway kicker who also doubled as trating very, very, very, very hard, probably as hard as I've ever concentrated on a kick. It happened so fast and all of a sudden it was over. You look up and the ball is going through the goal posts. I was pretty happy." It was redemption for O'Brien, now 63 and a project manager for a real estate company in Los Angeles, because he missed the first PAT of the game after Hall of Fame tight end John Mackey caught a ball from Johnny Unitas that went off the hands of intended receiver Ed Hin-ton and Dallas DB Mel Renfro.

Mackey went 75 more. Since owner Jim Irsay has reached out to them, they've come around. "I feel an affinity for Baltimore, the city," he says. "But the (these) Colts still have horseshoes on their helmets.".